| Workshop on safe food practice today
Staff Reporter
THE Communicable Disease Control Section of National Health Authority�s Department of Preventive Health will host a safe food practice workshop today.
The exercise aims to develop a national food quality and safety system in Qatar at par with international standards.
The Ministry of Municipality and Agriculture Affairs, Qatar National Hotels Company (QNHC), and major hotels and food and beverages establishments outside QNHC are among the participants.
Qatar Airways and civil aviation catering, Qatar Petroleum, fast food chains, schools and labour camp caterers, and Qatar Foundation and its affiliated teaching and training centres are also among the attendees.
�This workshop is intended as a brainstorming session for executive and manager level decision makers to establish a focus group and an action plan to ensure implementation of the guidelines and recommendations,� an official said.
'Affordable affluence' in Beverley
Beverley is the British town where an affluent lifestyle can be achieved at the most affordable price, a report says. The Yorkshire town's good schools, decent housing stock and reasonable property prices helped put it top of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS)'s "affordable affluence index". Maidstone in Kent came second followed by Chester in third place. The index weighed up the presence of positive "lifestyle indicators" in each area and the prices charged for them. These included up-market restaurants, bars, museums, galleries, gyms, top-performing state schools and motor dealerships. The presence of "negative factors" such as fast food chains, "value" supermarkets and betting shops was also weighed up to give each location an "affluence" score.
Lunchtime tradition ceases in Burl. City
BURLINGTON CITY � Some students at Burlington City High School are accustomed to leaving school grounds during lunch period to head home or to a fast food restaurant. But this year, the school district has decided to keep all students confined to the cafeteria. Business Administrator Craig Wilkie said the decision was made after the state Supreme Court ruled in June that schools could be held responsible for student safety after students leave school grounds. The case, Jerkins v. Anderson, involved a third-grader from Pleasantville, Atlantic County. In 2001, an elementary school dismissed its students early at 1:30 p.m. The third-grader, Joseph Jerkins, left school unattended and several hours later was hit by a car and paralyzed. The student and his parents filed a complaint against the Pleasantville Board of Education and the school principal.
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